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Subscribe to our mailing list. Description Excerpt Author Awards Reviews SNOW PART, pitched, to the last, in the updraught, before for ever unwindowed huts: to skite flat dreams over fretted ice; to hew out the word- shadows, to cord them round the cramp-iron in the pit. A few months before his death, Paul Celan described Schneepart as his 'strongest and boldest' book.

A response to the turbulent events of - the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the attempted assassination of a student leader in Berlin - the collection is haunted by images of earlier violence and resistance in a dark European century: the hanging of anti-Hitler conspirators in , the shooting of Rosa Luxembourg in These are poems of an Ice Age, their terrain the clarity of the limestone alp with its subterranean presence of caves and abysses.

Snow Part is the first translation of Schneepart to be published in English. Its seventy poems were written between December and October , and published in , a year after Celan's death. To this volume, Ian Fairley adds some twenty posthumously published poems closely linked to Schneepart. Cover image: Negative of the solar eclipse, from Sir Arthur Eddington's report on the expedition to verify Einstein's prediction of the bending of light around the sun, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London